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Two Are, After Discussion, Thrown Out by Legislature ¢¢ 993 ONE IS "UNINTELLIGIBLE ; Two Toronto bills werse thrown out in the Ontario legislature yes-- terday, one after considerable dis-- cussion and a calling for the "Ayes" and '"'Nays," and the other after brief comment on the fact that it was badly drawn up, and conse-- quently unintelligible. Jos. E. Thompson's bill to permit payment of $400 per annum to BSchool Trustees was the first one' dealt with, and it went down under the almost sol.d opposition of the Farmer members. A. C. Lewis' bill to permit To-- ronto to assess for income on the basis of actual earnings last year also went under when J. W. Curry célled attention to the dangers at-- tending the passage of a plece of legislation not too clearly defined in its effect. Government supporters split all ways on the bill of J. E. Thompson, Northeast Toronto respecting pay-- ment of members of the Board of Education. Hon. W. E. Raney was its principal opponent; Hon. Harry Mills opposed it as a man interested in education; and H. H. Dewart, the Liberal leader was against it. Hon. R. H. Grant, Minister of Educa-- tion, favored the measure, as did Hon. G. H. Ferguson. A -- standing vote at the end of the discussion found the '"nays" had a substantial majority. wih , Indignant protest was voiced or ;the floor of the Ontario Legislaturc | by Hon. Manning Doherty yesterday |that during his absence overseas he ishould have been held up to public ridicule as an extravagant Minister, who insisted upon sumptuous furn-- ishings for his Parliament Building apartment. Although the evidence on which newspaper reports were based was adduced before the Pub-- lic Accounts Committee and taken verbatim, Hon. Mr. Doherty declared _he was informed by his Deputy Min-- ister that the itemized expenditures, as given, were incorrect. For instance, said the Minister, [two items, a mahogany chair and a mahogany rocking chair, costing, ac-- cording to the reports, nearly $400, were two articles of furniture "that never were in the room, and were never purchased by the Department of Public Works. These two articles, amounting to nearly $400, if de-- ducted from the furniture, would make the furnishings of that room one of the most inexpensive absolute-- ly of any Minister's room in this Government or in the previous Gov-- ernment, or the Government previous to that." Hon. G. S. Henry pointed out that the newspaper reports were strictly in accord with evidence given by Hon. Mr. Doherty's Deputy Minister, and were on record, possible of veri-- fication.